Travis Louie went to the Pratt institute in New York and got a degree in communications/ design.   He worked for a while as a freelance artist and then started to make paintings with graphite and black and white acrylic. He bases his paintings off of drawings and writings in his journals.

I like the different styles of Dorothea Tanning's art. My favorite is the second one with the sunflower at the top of the stairs. Some of her early works were inspired by dreams.

Wood, gesso and glass table by Costa Achillopoulo, 1934.
Butterfly Apple-Vladimir Kush
Dance Of Time

by Byron Galvez

Vladimir Kush 1965

Soft Construction With Boiled Beans- Salvador Dali

Still Life With Old Shoe- Joan Miro

By Jacek Yerka

By Jacek Yerka

By Salvador Dali

Rene Magritte
Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist.
He was born in  Belgium in 1898 and he died in 1967.
He started drawing lessons in 1910. His mother drowned herself in a river two years later, and she was supposedly found washed up with a dress over her face. This was thought to have inspired people in Magritte's art whose faces were obscured. His early paintings were impressionistic, and it 1967 he made his first surrealist paining. He also had ties to the communist party.

This is a piece by Matthieu Bourel. This could represent someone's mental state.





This piece is by Hugo Barros. There are two seemingly separate parts of the piece. The people in  front seem to be watching the wedding party in the garden. In the back there are dry hills and the planet looks like it is on fire. The purpose of this could be to explain how easy it can be to ignore things when you can not always feel their direct effect on your life.

Arshile Gorky
Gorky was born  on April 15, 1904 in the village of Khorgom which was on the shores of Lake Van. He fled during the Armenian Genocide, along with his mother and sisters. After his mother's death, when he was 16, he came to America.
He went to The New School Of Design in Boston Massachusetts. In the 1920s, his work was impressionist and postimpressionist. In the 1930s, he first experimented with cubism, then surrealism.

Grattage involves placing textured materials under a canvas or paper and making impressions of the texture, sometimes by scraping off layers of paint. Grattage was used by surrealists such as Max Ernst and Joan Miro.